Thursday, January 12, 2006

Win valuable prizes...

It seems to good to be true, but Blingo claims to give actual prizes just for using their search engine interface, which is almost as clean as Google, and is actually powered by Google. They make their cash from Google ads, ironically. And Blingo only counts your first ten searches a day as "entries", so there's no odd urge to overdwell on the site.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Confusing Commentary Cue Free-For-All

Created as a totally impossible way to gather data for Shaw's contention that certain kinds of posts get comments, while others don't. Or not. Go ahead, make my blog.

Telemarketers have an advantage over you because they have a script, so here's a script to use with telemarketers. (Bonus question: Honestly, do you really care what kind of toothpaste your telemarketer uses?)

Because Alito is unwilling to commit right now to upholding Roe vs. Wade forever regardless of judicial context, CNN reports, "Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat...said he could only conclude the nominee would overrule the precedent if given the chance." (Bonus question: Who is more in need of a course in logic: Schumer, the Governator, or Bill O'Reilly?)

Metabonus points to anyone who can establish clean rules for which content Shaw posts here, and which he chooses to post in his own blog. Shaw is exempt from answering this one, because, according to the newer thinking in sociopsychology, people are generally both wrong and arbitrary when trying to explain why they do what they do.